2022-06-17 Fri

Dr. Laxmi Mall Singhvi was an Indian jurist, parliamentarian, scholar, writer and diplomat. He was the second High Commissioner for India in the United Kingdom between 1991 and 1997.

Laxmi Mall Singhvi was born in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India, into a Marwari Jain family. He was a gold medalist in BA from Allahabad University and then did LLB & MA from Jaipur University. He was the first person from Rajasthan to enter Harvard University for his LLM.

In 1962, he stood as an independent candidate for the Lok Sabha election from his hometown, Jodhpur. He won the election by a narrow margin and was elected to Parliament from the Jodhpur constituency. In 1991, Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao appointed him as a High Commissioner to the Court of St. James.

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